Program

Wednesday September 18th

8:30     Coffee and Registration

  Session 1: Introduction and History (Chair: Jamie Holder)

9:00   Jamie Holder: Welcome and Overview

9:15   Stu Pittel: 100 Years of Bartol: An often tumultuous but always exciting century

10:00 Paul Evenson: Heliospheric Physics at the South Pole

10:30 Coffee

Session 2: Space Physics I (Chair: Pierre-Simon Mangeard)

11:00 Colby Haggerty: The Importance of Energetic, Self-generated Particles on Collisionless Shock Waves in the Magnetosphere, the Solar Wind, and Beyond

11:30 Subash Adhikari: Structure and scaling of electron pressure-strain interaction as a function of guide field in ion coupled reconnection

11:45 Mike Shay: Turbulent Heating of the Low Collisionality Plasma in our Solar System: Is Magnetic Reconnection Important?

12:00 Muhammad Bilal Khan  Mike Shay: Statistical Properties of Magnetic Reconnection in MHD Turbulence

12:15 Jiaming Wang: 1/f Noise in the Heliosphere: a Target for PUNCH Science

12:30 Lunch & Posters

Session 3: Particle Astrophysics I (Chair: Frank Schroeder)

14:00 Ralph Engel: Cosmic rays, a high-energy frontier in particle physics

14:30 Miles Garcia: Sterile Neutrino Analyses in IceCube

14:45 Priyadarshini Bangale: Multiwavelength investigation of the highest-energy gamma-ray sources

15:00 Liz Hays: Highlights from Fermi’s fraction of the Bartol century

15:30 Coffee

               Session 4: Astrophysics I (Chair: Veronique Petit)

16:00 Dermott Mullan: Astronomy at Bartol - the early days

16:30 Shaquann Seadrow: Exploring the Influence of Fossil Magnetic Fields on Massive Star Evolution

16:45 Sally Dodson-Robinson: Multitaper magnitude-squared coherence for time series with missing data: Understanding oscillatory processes traced by multiple observables

17:00 John Debes: Debris Disks around Stars: Understanding the Evolution of Planetary Systems

17:30 - 19:00 Reception in the Atrium on STAR Campus

Thursday  September 19th

8:30     Coffee and snacks

Session 5: High Energy Physics (Chair: Qaisar Shafi)

09:00 Miriam Cvetic: String Theory, Quantum Field Theory and Higher Symmetries

09:30 Amit Tiwari: Topological Structures and Gravitational Waves in Grand Unified Theories  

09:45 Hari Ramani: Stringent constraints on intra-galactic substructure and the primordial power spectrum from ultra-faint dwarf dynamics

10:00 Marianna Safronova: Quantum technologies for new physics searches in the laboratory and in space

10:30 Coffee

Session 6: Particle Astro II (Chair: Arijit Bose)

11:10 Aswathi Balagopal V.: Diffuse Astrophysical Measurements With IceCube Starting Events

11:40 Sajan Kumar:  Gamma-Ray Study of Supernova Remnants and Pulsar Wind Nebulae with VERITAS

12:00 Austin Cummings: The Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) on a Balloon with Radio (PBR)

12:30 Lunch & Posters

Session 7: High Energy II and Particle Astro III (Chair: Dave Seckel)

14:00 Hermann Kolanoski: Cosmic Ray Physics at the South Pole

14:30 Nikolas Korzoun: Expanding the Science of PANOSETI

14:45 Quinn Abarr: Discovering ultrahigh energy neutrinos with PUEO

15:00 Jonathan Engel: Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay

15:30 Coffee and Photograph

Session 8 Astrophysics II: (Chair: Sally Dodson-Robinson)

16:00 Mary Oksala: Tracing the Evolution of Magnetic Massive Stars

16:30 Veronique Petit: A decade of NGC 1624-2 studies: the O-type star with the largest known magnetic field

16:45 Gregg Wade: HD 45166 and Plaskett’s star: two cases of binary evolution implicating magnetic fields

17:00 Patrick Stanley: Is the Lack of Detected Magnetic Be Stars a Consequence of their Observation Biases?

17:15 Victor Ramirez-Delgado: Simulating the 10% Incidence of Magnetic Massive Stars with Population Synthesis

18:00 - 21:00 Dinner at the Embassy Hotel

Friday  September 20th

Session 9: Space and Heliospheric (Chair: Mike Shay)

09:00 Nick Arge: Solar and Heliospheric Modeling and Forecasting

09:30 Scott Martin: Preliminary Results from the 2024 AESOP-Lite Mission Studying Cosmic Ray Electrons and Positrons

09:45 Pierre-Simon Mangeard: The Neutron Monitor Network

10:00 Samuel Fordin: Identifying Waves in the Solar Wind Using Convolutional Neural Networks

10:15 Daniel O’Donnell: Simulating Centrifugal Breakout Driven Magnetic Reconnection

10:30 Coffee

Session 10: The Future (Chair: Ben Maruca)

11:00 Arijit Bose: Magnetized high-energy-density laboratory astrophysics experiments to unravel collimation mechanisms in plasma outflows, and beyond

11:30 Spencer Axani: Searching for New Physics with Neutrinos 

12:00 Yan Yang: Data enhanced modelling of magnetized turbulence

12:30 Closing remarks (Jamie Holder), lunch and end. 

Posters

Yuca Chen: Studying Cosmic Ray Spectral Features Through Numerical Investigation

Amna Ejaz: Red-noise-based false alarm probabilities for astrophysical time series

Chung Hei Leung: Designs of experiments for studies of strongly collimated magnetized laser-driven plasma

Masooma Sarfarz: NuDot R&D using liquid scintillator detector

Benjamin Flaggs: Layered Water Cherenkov Detectors for Next Generation Air-Shower Arrays: Calibration Studies

Yigeng Tian: Simulations of collimated laser-plasma jets in the ambient low beta condition and astrophysical relevance

Maeve Owens: Measuring the Muon Lifetime in your Pocket

Stef Verpoest: Plans for a new array of radio antennas for cosmic-ray detection at the Pierre Auger Observatory

Collin Owens: A New Portable Cosmic Ray Muon Tagger

Abdul Rehman: CNNs for air showers measured with prototype radio antennas at the South Pole

Andrew Fonseca: Validation of GJ 3942 Rotational Period through Time-Series Analysis

Justin Harrell: Distinguishing Exoplanets from Stellar Activity 

Manuel Herrera: A Machine Learning Model Based on Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks to Identify Waves in the Solar Wind

Muhammad Hani Zaheer: Detection of Bosenovae With Quantum Sensing Experiments

Riley Clarke: Every Datapoint Counts: Stellar Flares as a Case Study of Atmosphere-Aided Studies of Transients in the Rubin LSST Era

Para Koundal: Comprehensive air shower reconstruction using radio antennas at the South Pole

Juniper Foote: A VERITAS/Breakthrough Listen Search for Optical Technosignatures

Connor Mooney: Probing Hadronic Particle Cascades in Blazar TXS 0506+056

Rayta Pradata: Exploring Low-Frequency Interplanetary Magnetic Field Spectra at Mercury's Solar Wind Using MESSENGER Data

Zihang Cheng: Multiple Magnetic Reconnection Events Observed in Mercury's Magnetosphere

Tali Natan: Spin-down of Magnetic Massive Stars Calculated from Magnetic Maps

Conor Larsen: How Magneto-Convection Reshapes the Evolution of Short Period Cataclysmic Variables

Willow Fortino: How Low Can We Go: Minimum Spectroscopic Requirements for Supernova Subtype Classification

Tatiana Acero Cuellar: A comparative study of different Deep Learning image-based models for Real-Bogus classification